Recent content by darrenf

Roger that. Thanks.

Are these still available?

I didn't realize until I read this that the IC was refreshed. I have to replace my gen 1 IC because of bubbles. Has anyone done an upgrade on a car with a gen 1 MCU? Possible?

This just started on by late-2014 P85 w/ 158k miles. Definitely out of warranty but I'll probably bite the bullet and get it fixed because I hate looking at bubbles. The quote for repair was something like $1,200 for the screen and $100 for labor. The IC screens they are using now have a much...

I've used the wheel straightening service on the stock 21" wheels with mixed results, but the Arachnids are forged. Can forged wheels be straightened? I'm truly asking and don't know, but I would think that it's very hard to bend them back into shape, in the same way that it's harder to damage...

FWIW, I've had this service performed twice at the Tesla shop. The first time it was a courtesy no-charge and the most recent time I was charged for half an hour of labor and no parts. They may have just been nice to me but if that's the usual charge, it seems like a false economy to perform...

On Sunday's This Week In Tech podcast, Leo Laporte, who has a model X in production, said that Elon made a statement during an overseas interview that Tesla has decided to support Apple and Android mirroring rather than develop their own app ecosystem. I haven't read that independently but I'm...

I think you're actually referring to the speed-sensitive disengagement of the height adjustment but in case you don't know, you can already remove the geofencing on suspension changes. When you make a change to the height, a tag shows up on the screen to the right of the height selection buttons...

I was on a country road tonight where I paid close attention to this. The road was divided by a grass median in places and had no divider in other places. I set TACC at +7mph so that it would alert me when the restriction was in place. Amazingly, it was perfect the whole time. Whenever the road...

The CHAdeMO at North Hills mall is convenient to 440, reliably operational and in my experience always available. Oh, and free.

It's GIF all over again!

In part. The car certainly doesn't seem to detect the open part behind a tractor trailer in the same way that it does a car or van because in one instance the back of the trailer was almost overlapping my hood when I wrested control away. In my experience my car would have moved over for a car...

Fellow unicorn owner here. P85, Black with AP at VIN P60410 in case that helps.

I've heard that it was written gigawatts in the script and Christopher Lloyd didn't know how to pronounce it so he went with jiggawatts. I love that. Had he pronounced it right, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun to recite. :-)

On 7.0 my car was routinely trying to do exactly this on AP. It wasn't just a case of the car not seeing the truck drift into my lane. My car was actively sliding right towards the back of the tractor trailer. At one point it happened 3 times in one week and I learned to turn off AP when...